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Timone is a curious young boy who lives in Arcadia and is guided by mysterious spirits. His intrigue for the world that exists outside of his home leads him to discover the impact of man upon Earth. This illustrated book introduces young readers to the environmental issues our world faces today. Allow yourself to get lost in Arcadia, play with the animals and bathe in the magic found here.

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In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the '500 acres inclusive of lake' where Capability Brown's idealized landscape is about to give way to the 'picturesque' Gothic style: 'everything but vampires', as the garden historian Hannah Jarvis remarks to Bernard Nightingale when they stand in the same room 180 years later.Bernard has arrived to uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park.Tom Stoppard's absorbing play takes us back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between the Classical and the Romantic temperament, and the disruptive influence of sex on our orbits in life - 'the attraction', as Hannah says, 'which Newton left out'.

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Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and chaos that remains in the streets below him, he formulates a plan to leave a mark on the city – one as indelible and disruptive as the mark the city left on him.Victor, an eighty-year-old multimillionaire, surveys his empire from the remoteness of his cloud-capped penthouse. Expensively insulated from the outside world, he nonetheless finds that memories of his impoverished childhood will not be kept so easily at bay. Focusing on the one area of vitality and chaos that remains in the streets below him, he formulates a plan to leave a mark on the city – one as indelible and disruptive as the mark the city left on him.

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Farah cree que es una niña, pero carece de algunos de los atributos habituales. Casi imperceptiblemente, su cuerpo se está ?masculinizando?. Y así comienza su gran, inquietante e hilarante investigación: qué significa ser mujer? O un hombre? Nadie lo sabe realmente.Farah y sus padres se refugian en una comunidad libertaria de gente en desacuerdo con el mundo moderno, un paraíso alternativo, y crece jugando en bosques y campos compartidos por miembros de la comunidad bajo los principios de anticrecimiento, naturismo y amor libre para todos, incluidos los feos, viejos y enfermos. Allí Farah conoce el amor con Arcady, el líder espiritual y carismático de la comuna.También descubre la naturaleza ambivalente de la identidad y la sexualidad, la cobardía y la traición.Bayamack-Tam ofrece una novela sobre la inocencia en el mundo contemporáneo: una bildungsroman gentil, cruel, cómica y brillante que investiga y perfora nuestros miedos y nuestras ilusiones sobre el amor, el género y el

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Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers.April, 1960: In the cellar of a professor's house in Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat -- and instead finds herself in a different world.Anterwold is a sun-drenched land of storytellers and prophecies. But is this world real -- and what happens if Rosie decides to stay?Meanwhile, a rebellious scientist is trying to prove that time does not even exist -- with potentially devastating consequences.As the three worlds come together, one question arises: who controls the future -- or the past...?

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'Stunningly sensual and visceral' NEW YORK TIMES'Smart, beautiful . . . paints a lyrical picture' STYLIST'Groff is a sensuous writer' GUARDIANIn the fields of western New York State in the 1970s, on the grounds of a decaying mansion called Arcadia House, a few dozen idealists set out to live off the land. Abe and Hannah's only child, Bit, is born into the commune soon after its creation. He grows up there, becoming deeply attached to its way of life and everyone within it, in particular the beautiful but troubled Helle. While the commune rises and falls, Bit, too, ages and changes. But when it's time to find a way to live in the world beyond Arcadia, will he be able to let go of the past to forge a new start?'An exquisite tale of idealism and disintegration . . . Utterly absorbing' MARIE CLAIRE'Intricately wrought . . . A powerful pean to the human desire to make the right sort of place live' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Arcadia is stunningly sensual and visceral in describing behaviour straight out of a time capsule . . . A shimmering evocation of the commune's heyday' NEW YORK TIMES

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From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a voyage into the enduring myth of Arcadia and the mysterious painting it inspired. A lyrical novel about art and enlightenment that takes the reader from Waterloo Station in London to Paris and a four hundred year old enigma, the painting by Nicolas Poussin known as 'Et in Arcadia Ego'. 'We never write the book we think we are writing. We never read the book we think we are reading' BEN OKRI.

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